Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No it’s not, it’s Alex Ashwood! RACE 12 – GOOD DEAL TYRES PACE (2190 MS) Alex Ashwood, trainer/driver of Fashion Passion ($1.30 fav Winner) was queried into the seemingly improved performance of the mare compared to its most recent starts. Mr Ashwood advised Fashion Passion was having its first start for his […]
The breaking news from across the ditch is that Woodend Beach trainer Cam Jones (pictured above) has this afternoon been caught with a needle in his hand ready to inject his pacer Johnny Nevits with an unknown substance on the way to the Addington race track. Our information is that Jones was being covertly surveilled […]
Humbletonian race day is supposed to be a celebration of the little Aussie battlers who love the trots. It is a satire of the great American million dollar Group 1 classic the Hambletonian, named after Hambletonian 10, the father of the modern trotter and pacer, and won over its 98 year history by such luminaries […]
I don’t know how trainer Troy Williams – Twilliams – does it. You know the story about Idle Hands, he’s the old walker who had won one race from his past 100 starts when he joined the Twilliams stable at age 11 and 3/4, immediately won 3 in a row, and has won 4 of […]
Race 5 at Gloucester Park in WA on Friday night was a horror show. The second favourite McCardles Gem driven by it’s trainer Brett Smith was drawn in gate 2. $10 shot Cavalry Call was drawn the pole. Emily Suvaljko was it’s driver, and unsurprisingly she wanted the lead, for the horse had won the […]
The word running around Melbourne town is that a self-proclaimed trot form analyst who is very fond of excessive hand waving and gazing at their image in the mirror may have been caught getting up to sackable mischief in the lavatories during a recent work Xmas party. It is said that his employers are not […]
I rang the NSW Stewards room this morning to clarify matters regarding the McCarthy and Morris suspensions, and their effect on ID21. By sheer chance the Chairman of Stewards Mr Clint Bentley happened to answer the phone. Mr Bentley was kind enough to field my questions and provide on the record answers. These are they […]
Earlier in the week we tipped you the greatest certainty ever outside of death and taxes when we prophesised that after our story about Luke McCarthy being ineligible to drive in 3rd round of ID21 heats and the final was published and read, the Menangle Stewards report from last Saturday the 4th of December would […]
They haven’t fudged the start date on Robbie Morris’s 21 day suspension commencing immediately as of 30 November. The suspension that tipped him out of driving in rounds 2 and 3 of the heats, or should have anyway under the rules. Morris of course drove. He is ineligible to drive on finals night as well. […]
